How to Detect Mobile or Tablet Condition in WordPress

Mobile friendliness has becoming a must need condition for building a website nowadays. With the Google’s Mobilegeddon updates on mobile search algorithm effective starting on 21 April 2015, many webmaster and web developer starting to feel the pressure on updating their websites or client’s website so it won’t effect how well their sites rank in Google search engine.

Today, we are going to learn how to detect mobile or tablet device in WordPress. Sometime even if you already optimize your WordPress site for mobile viewing, there’s still a few tweak that can help you optimize even more so your sites will load faster in mobile devices. for example you do not want to show some element like sidebar or different advertisement options to show whenever you in mobile or tablet device.

Using WordPress built-in function wp_is_mobile is a great way to detect mobile, however this function did not distinct if the user using mobile or tablet device. Because you prefer to show less stuff when user in smaller mobile device (not tablet), you would want to separate the two condition between them, here’s where mobile detect php comes in handy.

You can check out more conditional mobile detect in their website which include browser and device OS detect. Hope you find the tutorial helpful and help you improved your WordPress site mobile optimization. Want a live sample?, try browsing this site in mobile device vs tablet device, you will see the difference.

http://www.dezzain.com/wordpress-tutorials/how-to-detect-mobile-or-tablet-condition-in-wordpress/How to Detect Mobile or Tablet Condition in WordPresshttp://cdn.dezzain.com/1/2015/04/mobile-vs-tablet-difference.jpghttp://cdn.dezzain.com/1/2015/04/mobile-vs-tablet-difference-150x150.jpg2018-09-18T08:12:20+00:00Richie KSWordPress TutorialsWebsite Optimization,WordPress TipsLearn how to detect if user using a mobile device like iphone or smaller screen device, or they are using larger device such as ipad or any tablet devices.Richie KShttps://plus.google.com/115731118758085402501RichardKiewrkcorp@dezzain.comAdministratorThe creator and author of Dezzain.com. He also a WordPress, BuddyPress, BBPress and Ecommerce Theme Developer.DEZZAIN.COM